On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:35:28 +0100, petko yotov 5ko@free.fr wrote:
Erik Zachte wrote:
Would it be possible to make dumps every one or two days, so that we are less dependant on good fortune next time?
I am not a specialist nor a programmer so this may be stupid but isn't there a way to make an SQL "diffs" every day? Aren't the "logs" that you spoke about almost the same? If they can be offered for download, a complete database dumps (very time-consuming) may be created even more rarely.
The "diffs.sql" would not be enormous in MB and if applied ("patched") one after another to the database, everyone would have the latest complete data. This would also save lots of bandwidth for downloads.
Well, there's exporting only articles with a cur version later than the last backup. That would work for the current versions. Actually, the old versions can work in a similar manner (although ten article texts are compressed into one entry nowadays so it's a little more complicated).